Upgrade TZ to address 2018-19's Brazilian DST

[faleiros]

Please upgrade Xenial and Trusty tzdata package to 2018c to address changes in 2018-2019 Brazil's DST.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[H K Kobayashi (hkkobayashi)]

tzdata 2018c release was announced in January/2018 at http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2018-January/000048.html

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello faleiros, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tzdata into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/2018e-0ubuntu0.16.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Bionic only changes the timezone rules for North Korea. Testing results:
TZ=America/Los_Angeles date -d '2018-09-27 00:00:00 UTC'
TZ=America/Los_Angeles date -d '2018-12-27 00:00:00 UTC'
TZ=Asia/Pyongyang date -d '2018-01-27 00:00:00 UTC'
TZ=Asia/Pyongyang date -d '2018-05-04 00:00:00 UTC'
TZ=Asia/Pyongyang date -d '2018-05-06 00:00:00 UTC'
TZ=America/Sao_Paulo date -d '2018-10-20 00:00:00 UTC'
TZ=America/Sao_Paulo date -d '2018-10-28 00:00:00 UTC'
TZ=America/Sao_Paulo date -d '2018-11-05 00:00:00 UTC'
TZ=Asia/Gaza date -d '2018-03-23 00:00:00 UTC'
TZ=Asia/Gaza date -d '2018-03-24 00:00:00 UTC'
TZ=Asia/Gaza date -d '2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC'

--- bionic-before.log 2018-09-27 13:03:07.904805193 -0700
+++ bionic-after.log 2018-09-27 13:04:30.485819083 -0700
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Wed Dec 26 16:00:00 PST 2018
 Sat Jan 27 08:30:00 KST 2018
 Fri May 4 08:30:00 KST 2018
-Sun May 6 08:30:00 KST 2018
+Sun May 6 09:00:00 KST 2018
 Fri Oct 19 21:00:00 -03 2018
 Sat Oct 27 21:00:00 -03 2018
 Sun Nov 4 22:00:00 -02 2018

As expected, only North Korea's timezone shows any change before and after the SRU.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello faleiros, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tzdata into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/2018e-0ubuntu0.14.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-trusty to verification-done-trusty. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-trusty. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Xenial results:

--- xenial-before.log 2018-09-27 13:08:20.984673287 -0700
+++ xenial-after.log 2018-09-27 14:07:46.572361764 -0700
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 Wed Dec 26 16:00:00 PST 2018
 Sat Jan 27 08:30:00 KST 2018
 Fri May 4 08:30:00 KST 2018
-Sun May 6 08:30:00 KST 2018
+Sun May 6 09:00:00 KST 2018
 Fri Oct 19 21:00:00 -03 2018
-Sat Oct 27 22:00:00 -02 2018
+Sat Oct 27 21:00:00 -03 2018
 Sun Nov 4 22:00:00 -02 2018
 Fri Mar 23 02:00:00 EET 2018
-Sat Mar 24 02:00:00 EET 2018
+Sat Mar 24 03:00:00 EEST 2018
 Sun Apr 1 03:00:00 EEST 2018

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Trusty:

--- trusty-before.log 2018-09-27 14:13:54.747814714 -0700
+++ trusty-after.log 2018-09-27 14:11:31.437082432 -0700
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 Wed Dec 26 16:00:00 PST 2018
 Sat Jan 27 08:30:00 KST 2018
 Fri May 4 08:30:00 KST 2018
-Sun May 6 08:30:00 KST 2018
+Sun May 6 09:00:00 KST 2018
 Fri Oct 19 21:00:00 -03 2018
-Sat Oct 27 22:00:00 -02 2018
+Sat Oct 27 21:00:00 -03 2018
 Sun Nov 4 22:00:00 -02 2018
 Fri Mar 23 02:00:00 EET 2018
-Sat Mar 24 02:00:00 EET 2018
+Sat Mar 24 03:00:00 EEST 2018
 Sun Apr 1 03:00:00 EEST 2018

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

For precise ESM:

--- precise-before.log 2018-09-27 15:23:25.293064963 -0700
+++ precise-after.log 2018-09-27 15:29:21.681574534 -0700
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 Wed Dec 26 16:00:00 PST 2018
 Sat Jan 27 08:30:00 KST 2018
 Fri May 4 08:30:00 KST 2018
-Sun May 6 08:30:00 KST 2018
+Sun May 6 09:00:00 KST 2018
 Fri Oct 19 21:00:00 -03 2018
-Sat Oct 27 22:00:00 -02 2018
+Sat Oct 27 21:00:00 -03 2018
 Sun Nov 4 22:00:00 -02 2018
 Fri Mar 23 02:00:00 EET 2018
-Sat Mar 24 02:00:00 EET 2018
+Sat Mar 24 03:00:00 EEST 2018
 Sun Apr 1 03:00:00 EEST 2018

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2018e-0ubuntu0.16.04

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tzdata (2018e-0ubuntu0.16.04) xenial; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release. LP: #1750627

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:57:44 -0700

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for tzdata has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2018e-0ubuntu0.14.04

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tzdata (2018e-0ubuntu0.14.04) trusty; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release. LP: #1750627.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:05:21 -0700